On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > One thing I am > wondering about is how people might work with Rich Clients that > become almost sovereign over the desktop. Will there be issues or > will it be a logical place for people to fall on. >
I think if it is "the" environment that folks work with mostly during the day, it could work--people shouldn't have to think "I need to load SAP and then get to X app that I want" but if they're just sort of living in SAP and hitting different apps unconsciously, it might be okay. I would be concerned, though, if folks have to sort of take two conscious steps just to get to the tool that helps them accomplish their goals. In any case, certainly a richer, more reliable RIA platform would make this more manageable, especially in the long term. > The context switching between groups of apps on your iphone, bringing > up widgets in OsX, etc., having collections of work in different > "desktops", is becoming a more familiar set of patterns. > In Quince, we talk about the Hub and Spoke and One Window Drill Down patterns. These are used a lot in mobile but not so much (yet) in desktop, but if your context calls for it, so be it. You might check those patterns out and see if they help at all in your thinking about this. > Love to talk about and better discern from a designer's pov what > criteria one would use to evaluate looking making a choice between > these different paths from AJAX to Air etc. > I think the key thing, from a designer's point of view, is the reduction of the feasibility constraint (comparing Ajax to the RIA platforms). There are some things you just can't do in Ajax; there are some things that are just too hard to do, and then there are many things that are just harder to do and/or maintain in Ajax. When choosing between RIA options strictly from the designer's perspective (all other things being equal), I guess it would come down to tooling & background--something you have to evaluate based on your team. But in reality, I think the choice of technology is going to be decided by other, more weighty factors already noted like target audience, perceived maintainability, perceived future success (i.e., will I be able to continue to recruit talent to work on it), and even cost, and the designer should just work with what makes sense for the project as a whole. HTH. -ambrose ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
